New Reason
Newlyn · Miles Newlyn
A revival grotesque by Miles Newlyn, drawn from Stephenson, Blake & Co. originals, with two character sets tuned for headings and text respectively.
About
The design preserves the characteristic tension between wide, stable capitals and a narrower, more animated lowercase found in late Victorian grotesques, while refining the rougher idiosyncrasies of its predecessors. Parentheses and mathematical symbols are redrawn as monolinear forms, improving readability, and tabular lining figures are highlighted as particularly suited to financial data. Five weights run from Light to Bold, and the dual character sets make it a practical choice for editorial and commercial work where warmth and period character are wanted without the roughness of direct historical revival.
Classification
Drawn directly from late 19th-century grotesques by Stephenson, Blake & Co., New Reason is a revival grotesque with wide, stable capitals and a narrower lowercase, placing it firmly in the Victorian grotesque lineage rather than the German or American branches.